In Food & Drink we review the local’s favourite sunset bar, Tulp Beach Café. Read the full report on page 4.
Talamanca Beach closed yet again following another case of raw sewage contaminating the water. Page 2
British Man Shane Looker Faces Extradition From Ibiza to Stand Trial for Murder of Thai Dancer
Dancer Pook Manochat’s dismembered body was found in a suitcase floating on the Mae Klong river. Shane Looker is said to have fled Thailand following the girl’s disappearance in 2014 Campaigners in Thailand directed the hunt to Ibiza where Looker is thought to have had connections in an Ibiza Town Hotel. Having evaded capture for over 2 years, Guardia Civil arrested him in a sting when he booked his car, known to the police, into a garage for repairs. This week Ibiza Court number 3 remanded Looker in custody awaiting completion of extradition procedures. Full report on page 3.
Tractor Boy
Man Drives Tractor From Belgium to Ibiza 1,600km trip takes eight days on his ‘lovingly restored Rolls Royce of the fields’
Everyone has their ‘memorable trip to Ibiza’ but 49yr old Peter Vanderheyden must be up there in the top 10. On his bucket list he wanted to travel from one of his houses to another, on his tractor. Leaving his home in Neerpelt, a small Belgian village near the Dutch border, he spent a week travelling on country roads to his apartment in Siesta. His ‘Fendt Farmer 2E’ has no speedometer, just an hours worked counter. It has none of the modern comforts of GPS, power steering or even suspension. Despite its lack of refine-
ment Peter considers his 40 horsepower tractor as something very special. “Fendt is the Rolls –Royce of the field” he said of the farm machine he has re-
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Flashback! We’re going old-skool back to the Ibiza Sun with the very first edition reprinted in full. Has anything really changed? Pages 6 & 7